12-letter words containing ru
- truck camper — a type of camper designed to be mounted on a pickup truck.
- truck driver — sb employed to drive a lorry
- truck jobber — a jobber or wholesaler who makes calls carrying goods on a truck, thereby being able to take and deliver orders on the same call.
- truck racing — a motor sport in which powerful trucks, without their containers, are raced around a circuit
- truck system — the system of paying wages in goods instead of money.
- trudeaumania — obsessional enthusiasm for Pierre Trudeau
- true anomaly — the anomaly of a planet; its angular distance from perihelion or aphelion.
- true colours — If you see someone in their true colours or if they show their true colours, you realize what they are really like.
- true to form — typical
- true to life — realistic
- true-hearted — faithful and loyal
- truk islands — a group of islands in the W Pacific, in the E Caroline Islands: administratively part of the US Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands from 1947; became self-governing in 1979 as part of the Federated States of Micronesia; consists of 11 chief islands; a major Japanese naval base during World War II. Pop: 53 381 (2006). Area: 130 sq km (50 sq miles)
- trumpet call — a blast made by a trumpet that serves as a summons or call
- trumpet vine — trumpet creeper.
- trumpet-leaf — trumpets.
- trumpet-tree — a tropical American tree, Cecropia peltata, of the mulberry family, having hollow, jointed stems and branches used in making certain wind instruments.
- trunk engine — an engine having a trunk piston or pistons.
- trunk piston — a piston with a long skirt to take the side thrust, as in an automobile engine.
- truss bridge — a bridge in which the loads are supported by trusses.
- trustability — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
- trustafarian — a young person from a wealthy background whose trust fund enables him or her to eschew conventional attitudes to work, dress, drug taking, etc
- trustfulness — full of trust; free of distrust, suspicion, or the like; confiding: a trustful friend.
- truthfulness — telling the truth, especially habitually: a truthful person.
- turkoman rug — any of a number of handwoven rugs produced by the Turkomans and characterized by coarse warp and filling yarn, a short, even pile made with the Sehna knot, and a variety of geometric, marine, and serpentine designs.
- tutti-frutti — a preserve of chopped mixed fruits, often with brandy syrup.
- un-disrupted — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
- underrunning — to run, pass, or go under.
- underutilize — to fail to utilize fully: to underutilize natural resources.
- unearned run — a run scored as the result of defensive errors.
- unfructified — to bear fruit; become fruitful: With careful tending the plant will fructify.
- uninstructed — not instructed; uninformed; uneducated.
- unobstructed — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
- unscrupulous — not scrupulous; unrestrained by scruples; conscienceless; unprincipled.
- unstructured — lacking a clearly defined structure or organization: an unstructured conference; an unstructured school environment.
- untrustiness — unfaithfulness; faithlessness; inconstancy
- usufructuary — of, relating to, or of the nature of usufruct.
- verumontanum — an elevation in the wall of the urethra
- vigee-lebrun — (Marie Anne) Élisabeth [ma-ree an ey-lee-za-bet] /maˈri an eɪ li zaˈbɛt/ (Show IPA), 1755–1842, French painter.
- viruliferous — carrying a virus
- water thrush — either of two North American warblers, Seirus noveboracensis or S. motacilla, usually living near streams.
- west prussia — a former province of Prussia: since 1945 part of Poland.
- white russia — Belorussia
- white spruce — a spruce, Picea glauca, of northern North America, having bluish-green needles and silvery-brown bark.
- winding drum — a rotating drum usually grooved to nest a wire rope which is wound onto it as part of the mechanism of a hoist
- wonderstruck — (of a person) experiencing a sudden feeling of awed delight or wonder.
- woodruff key — a key having the form of a nearly semicircular disk fitting into a recess in a shaft.
- work to rule — If workers work to rule, they protest by working according to the rules of their job without doing any extra work or taking any new decisions.